Pogues - A Pair Of Brown Eyes lyrics

One summer evening drunk to hell<br>I stood there nearly lifeless<br>An old man in the corner sang<br>Where the water lilies grow<br>And on the jukebox johnny sang<br>About a thing called love<br>And it's how are you kid and what's your name<br>And how would you bloody know? <br>In blood and death 'neath a screaming sky<br>I lay down on the ground<br>And the arms and legs of other men<br>Were scattered all around<br>Some cursed, some prayed, some prayed then cursed<br>Then prayed and bled some more<br>And the only thing that I could see<br>Was a pair of brown eyes that was looking at me<br>But when we got back, labeled parts one to three<br>There was no pair of brown eyes waiting for me<br><br>And a rovin' a rovin' a rovin' I'll go<br>For a pair of brown eyes<br><br>I looked at him he looked at me<br>All I could do was hate him<br>While ray and philomena sang<br>Of my elusive dream<br>I saw the streams, the rolling hills<br>Where his brown eyes were waiting<br>And I thought about a pair of brown eyes<br>That waited once for me<br>So drunk to hell I left the place<br>Sometimes crawling sometimes walking<br>A hungry sound came across the breeze<br>So I gave the walls a talking<br>And I heard the sounds of long ago<br>From the old canal<br>And the birds were whistling in the trees<br>Where the wind was gently laughing<br><br>And a rovin' a rovin' a rovin' I'll go<br>For a pair of brown eyes